Finance Minister Chidambaram tossed out many social sector schemes off his sleeve one after another in his new budget. While presenting the previous year's Budget 2007-08, Finance Minister said we have no dearth of funds but we lack in deliverance. Everybody knows allocating huge social sector funds amid a rag tag delivery mechanism will lead to huge leakage, creation of idle energy and ostentatious show of wealth by unscrupulous people who thrive on the leakage of 80 to 85% of development fund. Leakage will generate huge surplus in the hands of Indian political class, their cronies and the corrupt state government officials. Ultimately, this surplus money is going to boost sale of consumer items and help manufacturing sector. The budget 2008-09 should have addressed the disease instead of treating the symptoms. Social sector schemes will improve the quality of life if proper monitoring, authentic survey, in depth research and a dedicated delivery mechanism become a reality. In a quality IT environment with advance satellite facility every thing can be documented with minute details.

But implementation of different development schemes invites lots of problems as every political party tries to hijack the scheme. The UPA government's debt relief scheme of Rs 60,000 crore is already hijacked by NCP in Maharashtra. Social sector scheme benefit will seldom reach the common man unless government takes serious steps to quarantine Indian human material from the grass root level. There is a growing lust for wealth, power, comfort and western life style among majority of educated people without commitment to nation and the society they belong. "There is an urgent need to instill a sense of discipline among citizens. The education system right from the primary level has to concentrate on this aspect," said our former President APJ Abdul Kalam. President Kalam had inspired every Indian with his simplicity and unending jest to make India a developed nation. India desperately needs quality human material with a sense of belongingness to the nation. We cannot create a mass of rootless people in the name of globalization. Over the years we have created huge idle energy due to the leakage of social sector fund. Looters of Social sector funds lead a lavish life without doing any visible economic activities.

This destroys the entrepreneurship spirit among people. Why should a villager will work from morning till evening for Rs 60 to Rs 80 when his friend lives in luxury by looting the social sector fund? Prime Minister Manmohan Singh once chastised the ostentatious show of wealth by people. Allocating huge social sector funds will create more ostentatious show of wealth and degenerate society, culture and human standard. Ill gotten money always gives control to unscrupulous people who with money power easily manipulates everything to their advantage. If an ordinary district level political leader builds palatial buildings in several places and spends a crore or two in the wedding of his niece why people will work hard and be committed to a good cause. Union Budget is a sacred thing which is supposed to fulfill the hopes and aspirations of millions of Indians.

Finance Minister should have made a good beginning by strengthening the delivery mechanism across the country. When India has added IT muscles and satellite technology it won't be much difficult to monitor each and every scheme right from its inception. Look if the massive infrastructure planned during the 11th plan is not of good quality the government has to spend huge public expenditure to repair it in the next five years and is likely to squander away the revenue gain. India desperately needs enormous political will to groom people with honesty, sincerity, discipline and a sense of belongingness to the nation right from school days. We have a system which allows sycophants who thrive on developing relationship with senior bosses instead of delivering goods. In India huge office hours worth hundred and thousands of crores is wasted in worshipping political and corporate bosses. This is in sharp contrast to developed nations' work culture where time is considered as precious wealth and a person is regarded for his visible performance. There juniors freely discuss and contradict the boss view points. There is an urgent need to weed out inefficient sycophants from the delivery machinery by conducting written skill test for them by an independent out side agencies. Inefficient yes men are like obnoxious weeds who thrives on relationship with political and corporate bosses.

They destroy talented people in the system like a dangerous virus. This is the reason why deliverance is a big problem for India. This is the reason why the best Indian brains migrate to developed nations. For example, Britain's National Health Service (NHS) has 30,000 doctors of Indian origin out of total 80,000 doctors. The government has to be very cautious and think twice before deciding to increase the retirement age to 62 year. The Budget 2008-09 should have made more allocation for grooming the right kind of human material who could only address India's biggest worry-the leakage of funds. The words of former Prime Minister Rajeev Gandhi, Economist Ajit Ranade and Mahendra Dev who said 15 to 20 percent of the development fund actually reaches the beneficiaries will haunt the planners and economists. More is the volume of development funds more will be the leakage which will disrupt economic planning across the country.